Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin - Story and Ending Explained - (PS5)
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- Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is a very under rated game. Written off by many to just be a mindless Souls-like entry in the FF series, it actually has a much deeper story than just a man who would fight CHAOS! In this video I go over the entire story of Stranger of Paradise as well as WHY Jack does what he does and how it sets up the game of FF1 to happen. Let me know what you thought of the story in the comment section!
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There was a line in the game, "I feel like I wouldn't understand even if you explained it to me."
Now I know what that feels like.
I'm glad i went back and gave this game a try again. The story kinda makes me sad and happy at the same time even tho they became villains they are actually heroes.
Yeah they did the ultimate sacrifice to save the world!
ah, the story of fallen heroes.... reminds me of Ardyn
You make me want to give it another chance. Blah idk if I can do it lol
@@sanjithechef the combat and job system is fun. The endless loot and lack of personality is not.
@@rcarfang2 the fucking loot... jesus christ. I just started to replay recently because I heard they uped it, but what they did was add a storage, which is better but kinda just a band-aid tbh.
You forgot to add that Sarah's crystal came from jack before the last reset and this crystal revealed some of the memories of jack
ahh you're right, good point! It did leave me wondering why the Lufenians didn't wonder where these extra crystals went... they just gave them another one anyway? Maybe they just said they "lost" it? haha
@@UnbrokenOdds I hope this gets updated as you will cover the Different Future DLC this January.
I will definitely do a new video once the new DLC comes out! I'm hoping for some big answers!
People make fun of the "Chaos" meme thinking this game offer a shallow story ........ until they see the ending
Totally agree! While Jack is a very strange flawed character (like not letting a boss finish their lines) I actually really enjoyed the story in this game!
@@UnbrokenOdds You kidding me? Not letting a boss finish their lines is the best thing about him, makes him so refreshing.
Literally, plug Jack into any FF game or KH game and the game would be over MUCH sooner.
It really helps that Jack is in a world where monologues flow out of every major villain that is not The Emperor, The Cloud of Darkness, Zeromus, or Exdeath (and that is more that they were not physically present and for all except The Emperor were simplistic forces of nature more so than they would have not monologued, as Opera Omnia shows) so Jack is really a breath of fresh air.
@@UnbrokenOdds it's explained that his personality is messed up due to having no memories, just an urge to kill chaos.
In flashback where he has his memories, he's much more of a normal human.
When they revealed who Jack was going to be, my jaw dropped. It’s a nice retcon that fits nicely into the FF1 lore. Too bad it took very long to get there. Also, just how advanced are the friggin Lufenians to be pulling out levels from future FF titles?!
what retcon? nothing changed
So who was jack?
his last name is Garland it gives itself away
@@wsabio16 He was a Lufenian sent in the Stranger project that basically rebelled against them.
We don't know anything of his life prior to that and wether he had actual family in Lufenia.
it's lazy writing
Thank for the explanation man! I wasn't understanding the story of Stranger of Paradise until the end and as I only knew bits of FF1 there where some stuff I missed. This game blew my mind story wise
Yeah it totally delivered way more than I was expecting in terms of story!
Finally seeing appreciation for the story!
"...pulled 2000 years into the past by his deceased friends who have now used the darkness to transform into the four fiends..."
* My capacity for logic has left the chat
Jack and his companions are actually very impressive.
Because this was not a regular FF where there was a single enemy & villain to kill to re-establish peace.
Here, the time loop and the Lufenians are the problem. Getting out of the time loop and fixing the world is the objective.
And they successfully did break the loop after they led the Warriors of Light into becoming heroes themselves, cementing their ultimate sacrifice.
Some of the things I dont underestand are:
- When Jack sits at garland's throne 2000 years in the past with the 4 beasts (which are his friends), how does the beasts retained the memory of the last cycle?
- When we fight the 4 beasts during the game, dont they know who Jack and the others are?
The way I understand it is that even though he "kills" his friends in the present, their power/darkness that they've given into goes into Jack and is not really gone. That power is then what Jack uses to send them BACK 2.000 years in the past, so they can use their power to bring him there before he dies. So they still have their memories because it all just happened to them (and they didn't REALLY die)
You are correct, when fighting the beasts during the game, they technically do know who Jack and the others are, but in the lore it says that when they die, the darkness left behind doesn't get wiped away with the world reset, so it's their energy/darkness from previous cycles that we're fighting and they KNOW they need to fight Jack to eventually get him to embrace Chaos.
Jack is a true hero if you think about it
For me Jack is the real hero of the Final fantasy 1 universe
@@Mammuut971 jack basically stopped a group of people to bring darkness and light and make his own darkness just to train the hero to save the darkness. That's chaotic good
Not just Jack. His friends too. They were so epic.
People always make fun of Jack always grunting "Chaos", but that's the only memory the Lufenians allow him to keep
I love how even the title of the game is an illusion to everything
Great video! Made a lot of things clear. Not much Stranger of Paradise story content on CZcams sadly so it's appreciated.
Glad you enjoyed it! Really appre3ciate it!
Good job dude. Finished the game the other day and gotta say the story makes sense. I mean, most of the main FF games. With this and how FF14 used time travel and different dimensions, all the games could be literally connected. I would be surprised, along with Kingdom hearts, a new era of the FF franchise will begin.
Yeah for sure! It's interesting how they pulled areas from each other game into this, I really wonder where the dlc will take us!
@@UnbrokenOdds right! Along with the motifs and themes from their respected games was a treat. I’m looking forward to the dlc as well.
This game is great and it's so much fun. I remember buying it day one thinking it was gonna play like Nioh and getting disappointed first, then abandoned it for months until I gave it another chance with a different mindset this time. I really hope they continue with the series and the franchise gets more popular. It deserves it.
That’s literally my story. I recently saw someone say the ending was good and decided to give it another chance. Ended up being really fun.
Time travel always makes my head spin so I really dig vids like this. 👍🏽
thanks for the more serious and less meme explanation of the story of Stranger of Paradise
in truth, the game's story is very good, it just became a meme on how it was delivered
it also show hero tv tropes but an annoying take but was imo very understandable cause they always lost memory while looping through time and being manipulated like a puppet
hope they also soon create an ff1 remake with this similar gameplay so this game will have an official remake game continuity
I did not get the story at all when I played it and was waiting for a story explanation on CZcams, I still barely get it 😪
@@phantom-X2086 short explanation.
High elfs or lufenians(futurey people) wanted to create a paradise for themselves.
Paradise got f'ed up, because people were turning to monsters and balance stuff wasn't balanced.
They created project strangers with jack and The OG warrior of light to fight off those monsters in a infinite loop.
Also fun fact everyone in project strangers are manekins, crystaley semi people. (Also lufenian creation).
Jack remembered and understood what they were doing and wasn't happy with it.
He decided to create a real warrior of light by becoming the big bad so that he would fix everything and stop people becoming monsters and being killed. Only real warrior can do that.
Another fun fact in og ff lufenian are all already dead (no paradise for them) and og warrior of light is akin of a recreations of the final lufenian (his name was Cid) but with failed memory installation.
@@dragonlex4 bro this is impressive
I looked for quite a while to find an explanation video. I found this vid by some schmuck with just a few subs buried in the mess that is the youtube search. To my surprise, not only did you explain it thoroughly, you did a great job with the edits. You deserve more subs, my man.
Thanks so much appreciate it! I'm hoping to have a video talking about the Lufenians up this week! Stay tuned!
Great video thank you for explaining. I love this story and it's a really cool way to make a prequel to Final Fantasy 1.
Thanks. Completely missed all of this during my playthrough
Thank you for this. I enjoyed the story, but I needed someone to clarify the details for me.
Glad to help!
Chaos!!!! Nice video explanation on this.
Thanks so much!
thx alot for this, i am not a final fantasy series player sadly so when i finished this yesterday was confused about a lot of things that didn't make sense to me but now it does , much appreciated
That's awesome I'm really glad it helped! What made you want to jump into the series with this title?
@@UnbrokenOdds played Final Fantasy XV before origin about 6 or 8 months ago and it was the first final fantasy series game for me , and i really liked it cause of the story was well made in a smart way, i remember it made a hole in my heart for imagining someone was on journey with his friends then he had to die and go his separate way to fulfill his purpose in life, kind remind me of my self , i had made groups of friends in my life and with time i started to go in my separate way and about 2 months ago i ended my friendship with them, but the irony because how bad i was treated by them
man i play video games to get away my life , but then find stories like origin and damn (the irony of my life)
sorry for talking too much , thx again for the vid
Well done it looks cooler than I thought I may pick it up...
It is actually really cool. As long as you like the combat then I think it's definitely worth it!
Great video!
thank god for this. I was so lost by the end.
I didnt playing FFSoP, but hearing the true story of garland who sacrificing him self and his friends for breaking the mugen timeloop so FF1 can be happen.That awsome.I thought Garland was pure evil.
Yeah it's cool to see a different side of him for sure!
Thankyou! I just finished this game and man was i confused. I never played FF1 so I'm glad I looked up the explanation lol
Thank you for this it was hard to follow it all after playing the game over several weeks
great vid
This is a good game I hope the three dlc make this game even better and reveal how the warriors of light look like in 3d
yeah I'm really excited for the DLC's and what they might add to the game and the story!
FF Dissidia showed you the Warrior of Lite in 3D, he has an alternate outfit that gives him the NES outfit style
Thank you for the video. I just finished playing it, thinking that it would be bad based off the memes. I was pleasantly surprised by this games story, it's a neat and clever little way to connect everything in my opinion.
Just finished this game !! My fav part is when you fight your fellow warriors
Excellent analysis and video, very much appreciated. I have a question though: when you fought the fiends in-game, where they Jack's corrupted friends? For example, when you fight Lich, is that Ash from a different time loop? I'm really confused about that part and hope you can clarify things, thanks! ⚔
I STILL think they missed a nostalgic opportunity to have a skyrim type map (even if it wasn't to scale).
Have an explorable map, just like the original;
blocked by a broken bridge, by needing a ship, by needing TNT to open a water way etc.
i played the game, love it., this is possibly the best summarization of the story, and filled in some gaps for me.
I saw this game on sale during the 2023 Steam Summer Sales. I watched the trailer on their Steam page and was confused, so I rewatched it. I said to myself, "Isn't Garland that annoying short blonde-haired guy?" So I typed "STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN spoiler" on CZcams and found your video. And I was right. At the same time, I'm not shocked at how good (in my opinion) all the 'Final Fantasy' games out there are, with their own stories. My favorite is 'Final Fantasy 7'. Anyways, great 10-minute video explaining it all.
Final Fantasy Origin is basically Final Fantasy The Panthom Pain
“Jack, I’m already a demon (Marilith/Lich/Tiamat/Kraken)”
Damn I feel so sorry for Jack & his friends 😢
me too :'( I kind of want to play both this and ff1 now!
damn. its been a while since I played FF1. Ive played the gba version and the psp once so i remember most of the story. My mind is blown right now
The lore for this game is utter CHAOS
the true fiends really were the friends we made along the way
I wish they continue this stranger of paradise series and put all the FF series into one corhearant story. Maybe it can end with how dissadia came to be.
That would be really cool! It would probably be pretty hard to make them all into one story but yeah definitely a fun idea. I've heard some new stuff in ff14 might connect a little, a new place called solution 9?
@UnbrokenOdds I don't know much about ff14, but I believe solution 9 is also Zidane's move when in trance mode. I wonder if there is a relation.
I knew this game was worth it! just finished it now and I love it. I'm too broke to buy the DLC so I'll just watch it on CZcams
This is a favorite of mine as well as ff7 and ff16 etc.
Thanks for the explanation. While i do love the story, and the battle system the execution was lacking. I was confused for most of the game until the end.
That being said, Garland wasnt the big bad we all thought, he just wanted to end the time loop once and for all and I respect it.
1:03 ARDBERT, yep.. thats our warrior of darkness err light, err... ghost? Err... Yah..
One thing I wish that Team Ninja would brush up on in their games is story telling. Their gameplay is top notch, but the way story is delivered leaves a bit to be desired.
The story is Nojima's thinly veiled complaint about his Square bosses, a threat to revolt against them. First, Jack is a parody of the worker who foolishly and unquestionably follows orders. The plot uses the consequence of the cycle, where the Lufenians keep erasing the world, to show the foolishness of Jack's blind trust. Jack, in turn, changes and rebels against the ones he trusted. The credits song My Way by Sinatra again emphasizes Jack's own individual choice. It's not a story about Jack and his friends but about Nojima being so angry over Square controlling his story writing, that he created his own Doomguy.
And now with Rebirth, Nojima will make good on his promise to eat their power.
Doomguy will save Aerith. The streets will flow with the blood of the nonbelievers.
Such a cool game very underrated 🔥
I surprisingly enjoy the outlier of Final Fantasy a lot.
Like Type-0, and this Strangers of Paradise.
Sadly, I doubt there will be continuation for any of em.
Thats a good backstory for Garland imo. I always thought of him being a willing villain with some secret purpose.
It would make sense given how Garland in the original FF1 is like “I was sent back 2000 years to help the four fiends wreak havoc by sending them forward 2000 years, and this loop is a fate I accept!” It also helps that that is his attitude in all Dissidia games.
Yes, it is definitely part of a simplistic time loop story, but if it were updated that would be a good reason as to why someone would be in a time loop willingly.
@@iantaakalla8180 I also find it kinda funny that more evil antagonists like Kefka seemingly follow his lead. I guess thats a whole new can of worms.
We were chaos all along
Just finished the game
I dont understand anything
Time to hear this video
Thanks 😘
Só he is the good guy all along... what the fuck LOL
ty 4 th3 vide0
Question... Who are the warriors of light? and I seen a video where you can battle the lone warrior of light as Garland and upon winning Jack goes back in time again seemingly to wait for them again... Does that mean with each loop they appear the warriors of light retain some past experience that allows them to slowly grow stronger over each cycle?
When this game came out I remember some wannabe intellectual people I knew were shitting on this game and primarily on the storyline. I asked if they played it and they said that they just watched it on YT for the story. The story is very good, it's just messy at times. And the gameplay itself is phenomenal, this is by far one of the best FF spin-offs alongside Tactics.
You should analyze it's connection to Dissidia lore next. Check the DLCs for more info on it :)
This is literally Madoka Magica's (2011) plot, just visually dressed in "high-fantasy realism" instead of anime. And it's mostly about dudes, instead of high school girls, but it's still Madoka Magica.
(Great review, btw!)
I wonder, would that make original FF1’s Warrior of Light a far more heroic Homura in the Rebellion film, for noting the trap Garland is in and saving him from that strange time loop?
i just recently beat it, when i did I got the impression that they were going to use the Warriors of Light to defeat the Lufenians once and for all? i haven't played the DLC yet, but I figured that's what it will be about?
sort of. Jack essentially sacrificed himself to sever ties with the Lufenians to save his version of the world, but now that he's had to turn himself evil, he needs to create the WoL to come defeat him as Chaos to bring hope back to humanity.
Wow. Jack is badass.
This game has such a cool gameplay. Then when I reached the end of the story, I realized I skipped most of the cutscenes, but still had the story with Astos and breaking the cycle. I love this story ! Such a great game overall, and definitely worth the season pass to learn even more !
Tbh the game had hardly any story and the last missions delivered it all.
Up until then it was farming and defeating the fiends.
@@miguelmota5980 Yep, completely true. Until the very end, I really though the game was between bad and just average. But my mind completely changed with the last reveal
explains zoomers🎉
Im still confused, how is his friends revived them selves and why in monster forms? Also why he want those 4 warriors of light to fight him and not find a way to erase Lufenian like he wanted to do?
The main idea is he defeats his friends to give in to chaos completely so he can become strong enough to severe the ties on his world from Lufenia so they can't experiment on them anymore. In the process when he becomes chaos, he sends his friends energy back 2000 years in the past to help defeat Lufenia. Because it's just their energy they give in to chaos as well to gain more power to fight Lufenia with Jack. After he defeats the Lufenians and should die, his friends pull him back 2000 years into the past with them. Creating a cycle of them always in war and always repeating this cycle. They then attack and become monsters to trigger the warriors of light to be born so they can train them to be strong enough to defeat Jack and his friends to stop the cycle and let chaos and evil be defeated
Ohh i see, thx for explanation.@@UnbrokenOdds
Best video of the year. I can't even understand how you understood all those things lol
Haha thank you very much. I rewatched the cutscenes a lot of times and read every bit of lore I could. I love figuring out stuff like this!
What's the last song?
Yeah but what about the fact that you travel to every FF game in this game? Each level is from a different game.
They explain that the Lufenians actually build each area to look like different "dimensions" (other final fantasy games) as part of their project to try and make the perfect world. Each one they recreate for different purposes but most of them provide some kind of power that they normally wouldn't have had.
@@UnbrokenOdds Ahhh fair enough
I have a question, Jack's friends sent him back to 2000 years ago in this game. Then he kidnaps princess Sarah and then the FF1 story happens. But at this point, does princess Sarah exist? So she can live for 2000 years?
In FF1, Garland was sent to 2000 years ago again? So was he sent to 4000 years ago then?
Thanks
If I understand the story correctly then no. Once Jack and his friends are sent back 2,000 years, they are their corrupted Chaos versions of themselves. This means they have strange dark powers that most likely let them live a lot longer than normal humans.
Jack and his crews' whole plan is to try and "create" the warriors of light, so they spend most of that time (the 2,000 years) corrupting the world, bringing darkness in because they need the world to be in turmoil under the darkness to create a bright light (and those conditions will create the warriors of light).
Plus at some point the fiends are supposed to just "appear" in the world, so I believe that Jack sends them forward again in time at specific moments (like Tiamat taking the Lufenians out of their flying city 400 years before the Warriors of Light, which then has them predict their coming) This is what makes up the time loop of the original game..
It is definitely complicated! But Jack doesn't kidnap Sarah until that specific time in the world that the Warriors of Light will come rescue her.
Jack and fiends wait 2000 years and come back to the new iteration of the Cornelia (where the princess/king/etc are).
Then he kidnaps the princess to set the events into motion that essentially create the Warriors of Light.
One thing that i dont understand. When you first time face garland in this game, he uses same moves as jack in the batle ( your party states so) but it turns out to be Neon after you win. So, is Jack behind that armor in that point of time and game, or is it just something else? I hate when i dont understand fully🤣. Thanks to everybody who can help me😆
Jack remind me everytime with Cor from FFXV. The game itself is bad for me, but the story is good at the end. I know since the beginning this game is about Garland, and since Jack have 4 companion it make me realise 100% the game is about Garland and the Fiends, so I am not surprised with the ending. The only thing that I really like is that the fact about Princess Sarah herself want Garland to kidnap her.
So you could say this game was sent...
...to us, from 2000 years ago?
When Eren is actually a Lufenian who inspires Strangers, people who hold the Attack Titan, to fight for freedom, knowing it will lead to genocide.
Not me crying by the end of this game 😭
i would too
Game story was too dark and depressing...At least true DLC ending was good.
Wow! i'll give this game a try. Seems like a cheesy 80's video game but the story seems interesting!
You know of games in the 80's that had graphics and gameplay like this?
@@Madmonkeman Use your reading comprehension Dip. "CHEESY". Now go slap your parents for not educating you and allowing you online to interact with other humans.
@@Madmonkeman lmao he took too many tabs back in the 80s
Sooo, is it safe to assume that Jack took all the darkness from his four deceased friends, and succumbed to chaos and used the darkness inside them to create the fiends.
Which then allowed the four true legendary heroes of light (which I presume are Jed/ Ash/ Neon/ Sophia). Filled with only pure light to finally come forward, and put an end to Chaos and ultimately the Lufenians plan.
I feel it's such a simple plot, yet it's so confusing as I want to believe that these 4, are the true heroes names Zelda style. And not just 4 random heroes where I make up the names 😂
No, Jed and the gang are not the real warriors of light. They are Strangers, the plan was to set up conditions to grow warriors of light that originate from Cornilia.
Battle not with monsters, lest you become a monster
More like Die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become a villain
Such a melancholy tale
Final fantasy went from; here’s a self contained, slightly confusing plot to let’s tie it all together with time loops and darkness and Chaos and Nomuras fan-fiction style writing and REALLY take the piss.
Lol in a sense yeah, but its interesting the original ff had so much of that in there with the time travel and loop and stuff, i do like having it expanded upon though
@@UnbrokenOdds I will agree with you. It is exciting to go back and figure out how or why it all began. It was all already loosely connected via characters and items, so a connecting thread is always fun to play around with
You do know Nomura didn't write this, right? Nojima did.
@@TheCyclicGamer nojima is nomura's writing hand. It's the same thing :))
Yeah...Seems a bit Chaotic don't you think?
Is that what y said is true!and why they say in FF true Ending chaos is die?i don't understanding (who win and who lose) and i thought monster win just as ff xv
So the one thing I don't exactly get is who/what are the fiends we're fighting in the game's timeloop ?
From my understanding they're the remains of defeated strangers from past loops but in this case wouldn't they'd be reset with the rest of the world ?
I can't wrap how it's possible to have jed and ash in the same timeloop than their fiends counterpart. Sophia does makes sense in that you "free" her but I don't get the rest or didn't understand something
It might be a similar thing where the phantoms are unmoored from time. After every boss fight, you get a phantom who gives you a crystal, so probably something surrounding that.
They are previous versions of Jed, Ash, Jack, and Neon that persisted through the time resets. It's like how in when you time travel and warn your past self about something that's going to happen in the future, but in FF Origin it's reversed, it's the past versions of Jed, Ash, Jack and Neon that warn their future selfs.
They're basically not real. They're darkness left by when the strangers died.
You also find lots of this in the side missions.
you either die a villan or see yourself become the hero
then what is the story of Neon then, her story seem different than the other 3. something about she is not like Jack those people are sent by lufeian, it was Astos who gave her the crystal. And how she turn into fire chaos and that garland look alike dude in mission 1.
Neon is a girl from Cornelia. She was given a Crystal by Astos as part of his and Jack's plans to defeat the Lufenians, a plan which she and Jack would forget during the loops.
Neon realized that "Chaos" did not actually exist (in her timeline so far), that he was just a fantasy created by the people to blame everything wrong in the world, so She wished to become Chaos herself, hoping that heroes would come down and kill her, and bring hope to the world by destroying the peoples' greatest enemy.
Once defeated as garland the crystal returned her and a portion of her memories allowing her to join jack and the others
@@UnbrokenOdds then did she turn into fire chaos in 1 of the time loop and then turn to garland in another time loop?
this is we call Villain Origin.
Is this worth it? Its free in ps plus extra
All I'm hearing is Chaos!
So Jack and friends are really chaotic good while Lufenians are lawful evil, borderline chaotic evil lmao
aight, im buying the game.
I got pretty close to the end of this game… I legit hate it lol. But I found the story interesting, and I’m a big fan of the original game. Now that I watched this I wish I had just pushed through because the story seems to wrap up in a very cool way.
Yeah it's definitely a different style but I really enjoyed the story and didn't mind the combat too much
@@UnbrokenOdds I actually pressed on and actually just finished within the last 10 minutes. Glad I pushed through. It was really cool how they tied that all together. I’m curious about post game stuff but… ugh, lol… the idea of “Chaos” difficulty doesn’t do it for me lol.
It would be cool if they released this game in the FF Pixel Remaster engine as a traditional prequel to FF1. I’d play the hell out of that.
@@UnbrokenOdds and actually, the combat was fine, I just found navigating the dungeons to be a bit frustrating… not really difficult, but a lot of areas that look similar, and then if you needed to use a cube all the monsters respawn which just makes running around a bit frustrating , and… yeah, just not my style. I appreciate what they did though.
And I thought the story was complete nonsense, turns out its pretty good.
He killed chaos via suicide.
Pretty crazy right?
Oh my god this so tragic. By becoming villains they actually save the world. Incredible for a game that just seems silly at face value.
Well you're right. The story is rather profound for a game that is basically memed as a gigachad simulator and the gamified r/shitpost of Final Fantasy.
The story really is not as complicated as people make it out to be. I honestly think they just don't pay attention.
It’s ironically just as complicated as original FF1’s story, which is to say not that complicated but rather frustrated.
Shit gameplay... Better story than final fantasy XV.
Holy shit this plot is a masterpiece!
I just beat it today. Gameplay was really fun but at some point like halfway through the story i think it becomes completely unbalanced and unfair even if you are geared up and leveled properly (first playthrough was on hard so that could be why) but almost every enemy will have super meaty hp and break bars (some dont even stagger at all). One or two hits from the weakest of enemies will break you and as a result you are left sitting on the floor with your pants down for 5 seconds for an enemy to get a free kill on you and not only that but you lose all your buffs, instant ability, and your mp bar. You literally get punished for parrying which is not ok. Then these sadistic devs in the last few missions decided to like triple the enemy count in areas. Had to play perfectly to finish the game. One spot in the water shrine had like 2 elementals, a mindflayer, and some bats all just spamming spells NONE STOP. Literally couldnt get a single attack in. They were so relentless. I almost stopped playing there because of how toxic that one room was. Next room RIGHT after them had 4 sapphire courels and i think 2 elementals. I heard the dlc is even harder and you need perfected builds and skill to stand a chance so i might pass on those in fear of raging so hard i throw the console out the window.
Basically i think gameplay was fun but they went a quite a bit overboard on some parts with the difficulty. Story is fucking phenomenal though! Main reason i didnt rage quit so i can see how it plays out.
@@chocobro7863 "they went a quite a bit overboard on some parts with the difficulty."
Have you played other Team Ninja games such as Wo Long, Nioh 1 & 2, and Ninja Gaiden?
Because that's literally how they design all their games.
A little too hard. But they have a dedicated fanbase who likes this.
And difficulty goes insane in all their DLCs in their games.
I literally quit Nioh and didn't complete DLC due to this.
@@Bahamut3525 I have and the difficulties of those games never bothered me. Im part of that dedicated fanbase. I know just how brutal these games can be. I love souls-like games and have beat them all, except Wo Long, i havent gotten around to playing that one yet.
I havent played this since it came out but i recall my main issue with this game in particular was with the guard break mechanic thing. Where if you get hit hard enough or something your character enters an exhausted like state and you cant do anything but sit there and take an ass beating or die.
Im used to being bodied in souls like games but getting hit by something that basically puts you in a 5 second stun mode to be hit and killed for free was ridiculously annoying, especially in rooms with 3+ enemies that are beefy as hell and do some crazy spell spamming like the room i was talking about in my original post with the mindflayers, elementals, etc just spell spamming to the point you cant even move or attack, just block or dodge. There is no way to avoid every hit in crazy rooms like that and one bad move puts you in break then you are dead.
The other games have a similar thing where you can get stun locked and combo killed when being hit but those stuns last like 1 second and if you are not immediately hit again after the first you can dodge, sprint, or whatever and will be fine. I can deal with those kind of stun locks. Its different in this game when you get hit you can be broken and you are sitting there for literally like 4 or 5 seconds not able to do anything and even the slowest of enemies can take their sweet time then hit and kill you. Other than that guard break thing being pretty damn annoying, this game was fairly easy compared to the likes Nioh or Ninja Gaiden, even on hard mode.
Reading my original post back it def seems like i got guard broken one too many times and just had a fit lmfao. Other than those couple of rooms with 5+ enemies and spell spams i breezed through this. From what i remember majority of the mobs are a lot tougher than any of the bosses.
Basically all the things I killed in FF1 ,wanted to die to get rid of the lufenians
So why was the first girl Garland in the first mission?
She's not a stranger, she is from Cornelia and basically realized that Chaos did not have a form but everyone was still scared of it, so she sacrificed herself to embody chaos (which looked like garland) to let people defeat her and stop being afraid of chaos
They really spoiled the ending, did they? It is pretty careful to set that solution early, I guess.
Why they not make player play with 5 of them in batlle not as a 3
Hey some minor criticism. The music is overstepping your voice. I cant hear you talk much. Had to increase volumes. Also i would appreciate if you put up english captions too.
I say this, the gameplay look great
But was this game story necessary ? i bet anyone can take a bit from any old game that was never explain or let to interpretations and make a full game out of it .... of course what i found more annoying is this trop of making the darkness a think that ca be measure ,but sci fi civilations add in this mix to?
I mean we have a scene were Jack givea iPod to a fantasy princes to hear a heavy metal song !
Yeah I agree that was odd, I think they were trying to kind of show the difference between the civilizations with that. The Lufenians are super advanced compared to the people, so Jack having this "advanced" tech should make him stand out
@@UnbrokenOdds and that kinda a issues here , no one il take this serious even half way tho the game
i know there games or show that do a similar think, but that better execute, here , lituraly everyone remember this as the CHAOS meme
Too true, anytime I hear the word chaos now, all I think of is Jack Hahaha
I feel that the main cast are like Isekai characters from Isekai anime.
so he wasnt technically the bad guy after all
so what about ff9 garland?
FF9 is an homage to the previous games, so the Garland of FF9 is more of a reference, not the actual guy from the first game. The Garland of FF9 was constructed by the Terran people to observe the planet and determine its readiness to fuse with other planets.
lufenians? so ff4 is a part of this too?
You're thinking of the Lunarians, they're different.